Selected Music on the WestSide

Kenny Barron Quintet*
Kenny Barron is the leading practitioner of an elegant, economical and sure-footed piano style that thrives in any mainstream setting. For this engagement his band mates are the trumpeter Brandon Lee, the saxophonist Vincent Herring, the bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and the drummer Lee Pearson. (Chinen-NYT)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street,
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. / $25 cover, with a one-drink minimum.
255-4037, villagevanguard.com

Patrick Cornelius Quintet
Patrick Cornelius, a saxophonist who specializes in a nimble species of postbop, draws here from “Infinite Blue,” an album due out on the Whirlwind label in July. One of his partners here, the trombonist Nick Vayenas, is featured on the album; the others are the keyboardist John Escreet, the bassist Joshua Crumbly and the drummer Rudy Royston. (Chinen-NYT)
55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village,
At 10 p.m. / $20 cover
929-9883 / 55bar.com

Jeff Lederer 
Jeff Lederer, a saxophonist of rough but articulate style, celebrates the release of two albums on the Little(i) label, one with each set he plays here. At 8:30 p.m. it’s “Reincarnation,” the fifth release by the vocalist Mary LaRose, which features Mr. Lederer (on clarinet) as well as a string quartet. At 10 p.m. it’s “Swing N’ Dix,” his Dixielandish project with Bob Stewart on tuba, Kirk Knuffke on cornet and Matt Wilson on drums. (Chinen-NYT)
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village
At 8:30pm / $20 cover, which includes a drink.
989-9319 / corneliastreetcafe.com;

ROGER DAVIDSON
Yann Golgevit, countertenor, SPECIAL GUEST from Montpellier, France
accompanied by Roger Davidson on piano
Caffe Vivaldi – 32 Jones Street (btw. Bleecker/W4th)
7:15 – 8:15 / no cover.
691-7538 / caffevivaldi.com
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SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS @ 
2 Museums (WestSide Manhattan) & 3 Chelsea Galleries : 
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‘Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store’ and ‘Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum, Ray Gun Wing’ (through Aug. 5)
‘Performing Histories (1)’ (through Aug. 5)
‘Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light’ (through Aug. 12)
Museum of Modern Art: 11 W 53rd St,
(212) 708-9400 / moma.org.
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‘A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial’ (through Sept. 8) 
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street,
(212) 857-0000 / icp.org
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Richard Serra: ‘Early Work’ (through June 15)
This terrific exhibition looks back on five formative years in the career of the world’s most admired sculptor. One room contains objects made of lead, rubber, wood and stone produced by basic procedures like cutting, folding and tearing. A second gallery features works made by propping up four-by-four-foot lead panels and a single slab of hot-rolled steel, eight feet tall and 24 feet long, that juts from a corner into the room with grand implacability. (Johnson-NYT)
David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street,
517-8677 / davidzwirner.com.

Rodney Graham (through June 15)
In four giant photographic transparencies mounted on lightboxes, the versatile Vancouver artist Mr. Graham ponders a man’s middle age with comical ennui. Each is a fictional self-portrait of the artist as a construction worker, a scientist, an aging punk and an old hippie in a kayak. They are funny and touching because of the disproportionate relationship between their grandiose scale and their goofy images, which resemble those of downbeat Father’s Day greeting cards. (Johnson-NYT)
303 Gallery, 507 West 24th Street,
255-1121, 303gallery.com.

Wolfgang Tillmans (through June 22)
The nomadic German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans addresses globalization in a curiously offhand way. This is true even in his latest works, which assert themselves more strongly as art objects thanks to Mr. Tillmans’s experiments with inkjet printing; they are lush and almost painterly in their rich concentrations of pigment. Only after connecting the dots of the installation — which moves from downtown Los Angeles to Kilimanjaro, a Masai hut to a construction site in Shanghai, a car headlight to a close-up of mold spores — do you sense transformation and upheaval.(Rosenberg-NYT)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th Street,
(212) 627-6000 / andrearosengallery.com.